Subj : Re: HMMM? Anybody Home? To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Sun May 26 2024 07:35:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > > > > KM> > > > KM> 360 watts. I could run several and cook more than two eggs at > > > KM> once! > > > Huh: that's a lot lower than I expected! > > KM> It's for an egg, not a rump roast :) > > I figured to boil.... > KM> It's boiling KM> doodad> 1/8th to 1/4th cup of water, depending how cooked you > KM> want your eggs. That doesn't take much! > > So sounds like it boils the eggs, for how long determined by the amount > of water, then when the water is boiled off a thermal switch 'overheats' > and switches the heating element off. It steam-cooks the eggs, but because it vents off, the steam stays at boiling temp. If it were enclosed therefore under increasing pressure, would get a lot hotter! And yes, same basic way toasters and lots of other thermostat-things work -- if it had an auto-off switch, which mine does not -- bimetallic strip gets X-hot, bends and breaks the circuit. You might enjoy "Technology Connections" channel on youtube -- he does deep dives into how stuff like this works. One of the more interesting was the self-ejecting toaster, itself just a glorified thermostat. And.... the mechanical pinball machine, OMG complicated. > KM> And you don't want to cook eggs too fast; they get tough. > > Visualizing angry-looking eggs, flexing their muscles. AVMUG's logo was an eagle, but I always thought it looked like a tough chicken! https://web.archive.org/web/20130304213030/http://www.avmug.av.org/index.htm > > KM> It's really a steam cooker, and the water barely covers the > KM> hotplate. > > And I've been immersing my eggs in a saucepan of boiling water to make > hard boiled eggs! Steam is water, it's just more widely distributed. Think of it as clouds from hell. þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .